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This Day in Jewish History

This day in Jewish history / The rebbe who met with Freud

Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe who is credited with initiating Chabad's focus on outreach, traveled to Vienna to consult with Sigmund Freud. On this day in 1920, Schneersohn died.

By David B. Green | Mar 21, 2013 | 09:35 AM

This day in Jewish history / The premiere of 'Rhapsody in Blue'
By David B. Green
This day in Jewish history / Extra, Extra! Yiddish newspaper prints!
By David B. Green
This day in Jewish history / An artist who saw minority children is born
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This day in Jewish history / Farewell to the so-called 'father of Canadian Jewry'

Though he isn't credited with developing the Jewish community, businessman Aaron Hart, who died on this day in 1800, was the most prominent and influential Jew in Canada's early years under the British.

By David B. Green | Dec 28, 2012 | 09:34 AM

This day in Jewish history / Proselytizing Jews burned at the stake

When a sect of Jewish scholars who opposed the teaching of the Russian Orthodox Church lost the support of the archduke, they were quickly tried for heresy and burned at the stake in 1504.

By David B. Green | Dec 27, 2012 | 09:37 AM

This day in Jewish history / Expulsion from Aragon

On this day in 1424, Jews were officially denied the right to live in Barcelona, anticipating the expulsion from Spain in 1492 and the subsequent 400 year exile.

By David B. Green | Dec 26, 2012 | 08:17 AM

This day in Jewish history / A born-again Jewish philosopher is born for the first time

German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was ready to convert to Christianity until one last experience of Yom Kippur turned him in the other direction.

By David B. Green | Dec 25, 2012 | 09:28 AM | 3

This day in Jewish history / A star director is born (or so he says)

'Casablanca' director Michael Curtiz claimed that he was born on December 24, but like other elements of his biography, it's hard to be sure.

By David B. Green | Dec 24, 2012 | 07:13 AM

This day in Jewish history / Jews banned from beyond the Pale

In 1791, Catherine the Great signed an order confining Russian Jews to the borders of the Pale of Settlement.

By David B. Green | Dec 23, 2012 | 09:48 AM | 3

This day in Jewish history / Plot to bomb Nazi HQ foiled

Helmut Hirsch, a 20-year-old German Jew living in Prague, intended to blow up Nazi headquarters. But on this day, he was arrested.

By David B. Green | Dec 21, 2012 | 08:34 AM | 3

This day in Jewish history / Popular scientist Carl Sagan dies

Carl Sagan brought his life-long enthusiam for science, space and particularly extraterrestrial life to the masses.

By David B. Green | Dec 20, 2012 | 09:05 AM | 2

This day in Jewish history / A Nobel-winning physicist is born

Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American and the first Jew to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, is best remembered for his precise measurements of the speed of light.

By David B. Green | Dec 19, 2012 | 08:48 AM

This day in Jewish history / Austrian queen expels the Jews

Maria Theresa, queen of Austria and archduchess of Hungary and Bohemia, was known for her hatred of Jews. On this day in 1744, she banished them from her kingdom.

By David B. Green | Dec 18, 2012 | 07:48 AM | 5

Double Take

African migrants looking through the fence at the Egyptian-Israeli border on August 4, 2012.

Double Take / African asylum seekers out of the spolight but not in the clear

By Joel Greenberg | 08:39 AM

Double Take / A month after Gaza war, Hamas still rides a wave of popularity

By Joel Greenberg | 07:22 AM | 4

Double Take / The politics of potholes in East Jerusalem

By Joel Greenberg | 09:41 AM

Someone Else's Simcha

Someone Else's Simcha / Amit and Nili's wedding - Don't stop believing

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 06:29 PM

Someone Else's Simcha / Sharon Shaya's bat mitzvah – Logging off long enough to grow up

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 06:33 PM

Someone Else's Simcha / Pnina and Yitzhak's 50th anniversary – Indian love, set in gold

By Ron Ben-Tovim | 01:56 PM

On Root

Keep the pita, lose the hummus and pickles for Passover.

On Root / In search of breadcrumbs, oxygen and pickles

By Jeremy Benstein | 07:41 PM

On Root / How 'Europe' and 'Maghreb' both come from Hebrew

By Jeremy Benstein | 12:08 PM | 4

On Root / Cowboys home on the Israeli range at dawn

By Jeremy Benstein | 12:27 PM